Grade 10 - Social Studies

SOCIAL STUDIES 10

Curricular Competency

Content

Big Ideas

Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas and data; and communicate findings and decisions

Assess the significance of people, places, events, or developments, and compare varying perspectives on their significance at particular times and places, and from group to group (significance)

Assess the justification for competing accounts after investigating points of contention, reliability of sources, and adequacy of evidence, including data (evidence)

Compare and contrast continuities and changes for different groups at particular times and places (continuity and change)

Assess how underlying conditions and the actions of individuals or groups influence events, decisions, or developments, and analyze multiple consequences (cause and consequence)

Explain and infer different perspectives on past or present people, places, issues, or events by considering prevailing norms, values, worldviews, and beliefs (perspective)

Make reasoned ethical judgments about actions in the past and present, and assess appropriate ways to remember and respond (ethical judgment)

Global and regional conflicts have been a powerful force in shaping our contemporary world and identities.

The development of political institutions is influenced by economic, social, ideological, and geographic factors.

Worldviews lead to different perspectives and ideas about developments in Canadian society.

Historical and contemporary injustices challenge the narrative and identity of Canada as an inclusive, multicultural society.

government, First Peoples governance, political institutions, and ideologies

environmental, political, and economic policies

Canadian autonomy

Canadian identities

discriminatory policies and injustices in Canada and the world, including residential schools, the head tax, the Komagata Maru incident, and internments

advocacy for human rights, including findings and recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

domestic conflicts and co-operation

international conflicts and co-operation